This week we’re going to look at satellite launches happening this week, launches that happened last week and one return to Earth! Satellite Launches This Week On Sunday, 7th August, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning the maiden … Continue reading
Latest news in the world of Earth Observation (EO) includes the launch of two new satellites, and the latest updates on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 constellation. Gaofen-3 03 Last Thursday, China successfully launched the Gaofen-3 03 EO satellite … Continue reading
SpaceX set a new world record on Sunday, for the number of satellites sent into space on a single rocket. It launched 143 satellites via is Falcon 9 rocket, which broke the previous world record of 104 set by the … Continue reading
Spaceway-1 is a television satellite owned by DirecTV, which in turn is owned by AT&T, and DirecTV recently filed a request with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to make an emergency deorbit Spaceway-1. This is because, in December, … Continue reading
Two interesting, and indirectly linked, articles were published in the last few weeks looking at how satellite imagery and remote sensing techniques are being used to monitor changes in glaciers across the globe. Firstly, the paper ‘Global Assessment of Supraglacial … Continue reading
